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INTRODUCTION 



By SARAH TOWNSEND 



My dear readers, I am writing this book as God has com-* 
manded me to do. It has pleased God to give me my com- 
mand for first, second and third books to publish. As you 
can see, each book is different. I am trying my best to do 
God's bidding. Though the cross may be heavy at times, I 
am trusting God as Noah did when he was commanded of 
God to build the Ark. I do not think Noah knew who God 
had chosen to go into the Ark. Noah knew he was com- 
manded from God, not man. I am trying to do my best that 
God will be pleased with my work He gave me to do. I am 
going to continue to do my best that I may please God, not 
man. I am trusting in God that I may understand better 
some day what meaneth this calling me to this work myself. 
All I have belongs to God. When He calls for a soldier to 
go on the battlefield I will answer. Here am I, ready for war. 
I am praying for God to give me strength to stay on the 
battlefield when the enemies are fighting hard against me. 
God's grace has kept me thus far ; it will keep all that trust 
in Him. Remember, nothing is impossible for God to do 
if we will wait until He comes. Sometimes God is long 
coming. Trust Him and wait. He is all right when he 
comes to us. God brings good news and glad tidings. God 
help us to be more like Noah. 



Hymn by Sarab Townsend 



JESUS IS STANDING ON THE MOUNTAIN 



Jesus is looking at me; Jesus is listening at every word 

I say. 
Jesus is looking at me. 
If what I do be good or bad 
Jesus is looking at me. 

Jesus is on the mountain, 

Jesus is standing on the mountain; 

Jesus is looking at me. 

On the mountain Jesus is looking at me. 

I want Jesus to hear me call some sinner to Him. 
Jesus is listening at what I say for Him. 
I want Jesus to hear some sinner say, 
I will go to Jesus today. 

Jesus is standing on the mountain. 
On the mountain Jesus is looking at me. 
Jesus can see me wherever I go, 
Jesus is looking at me. 

When Jesus calls for my talent He gave me 
I am coming with my best. 
That Jesus will be well pleased with me 
On the mountain. 

Jesus is standing on the mountain, 

Jesus is looking at me; 

Jesus is watching every step I make, 

Jesus is looking at me. 

On the mountain Jesus is standing; 

On the mountain Jesus is looking at me. 



GENESIS, 1ST CHAPTER, 20TH VERSE 

And God said, let us make man in our image, after our 
Kkeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the 
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the catde, and 
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creep- 
eth upon the earth. 

How shall we make man that we will please God when 
He comes for our talents He gave us when we was saved 
from sin unto righteousness? God made us like Him* Have 
we kept the love and faith God gave us? If so, we are 
trying to make man for God after our own likeness. If our 
likeness is like God's we must be like God in many ways. 
How shall we do this? Watch and pray at all times. Our 
first watch should be in our homes ; keep out dancing, card 
playing, drinking, swearing, backbiting any one in the 
house or out, live the life of a lady and a Christian. We 
can demand such respect that is due us. What must we do 
with our children? Do our best; train them up in a relig- 
ious way when they are young; it cannot be too soon. 
Mothers must not let the child disobey old persons. We 
are helping our boys and girls to be after our likeness. 
When we have gone from labor to our reward, how shall 
we make man and woman after our likeness? Let them 
see us do nothing, say nothing we would not have God 
come and find us doing. Can we do any more to make man 
after our likeness? Yes, we must weep and pray for the 
unsaved man. When shall we begin? First, in our homes; 
second, in the street we live in. If we can make man after 
our likeness in our homes and street we live in God will 
give us faith and strength to look for unsaved man in some 
dark valley. When we find them we must tell them how 
God said. Let us make man. It is work for every Christian 
to do ; not one only. 

If your image is like God's, let us try daily to make man 
for good, not evil. We must answer for the deeds we do, 
let them be good or bad. 

God help us to have dominion over some unsaved man 
and make man after God's righteousRCss that we will please 
God when He comes for us. 



EXODUS, 17TH CHAPTER, 7TH VERSE 

And He called the name of the place Massah and Meri- 
bah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and 
because they tempted the Lord, saying. Is the Lord among 
us or not? 

We Christians are often tempted. When we do our best 
for the cause of Christ we feel that we are standing on the 
devil's ground and not God's. What must we do then to 
find out? Inquire of God if He is among us or not. How 
shall we inquire If we are in trouble? We will pray God 
for drink if we are thirsty. If we are really thirsty we will 
pray the best we know how, not say prayers. Ofttimes 
when we are trying to show sinners the way out of the land 
of sin into the light of Christ they feel we are trying to take 
from them the pleasure of life. They stone us in many sin- 
ful ways. This is the time we question God if He is with 
us or not. We are in trouble now; no time for prayers. 
We pray God the best we know how to show us if He is on 
our side or not. Then we get the pow^r from God to do 
much good for him. 

Do we obey God when He gives us His power as Moses 
did? If we obey God when He gives us His command God 
will take away the stoney heart from sinners ; He will follow 
us. Where shall we take them? To salvation's well to get 
a drink; they will not thirst again in this world. When we 
are trying to lead sinners to salvation will we get hungry on 
our journey? We get tired, we get many stones laid in our 
path. Remember, God hath said we cannot get to heaven 
on flowery beds of ease. We must fight for the prize. Some- 
times sail through boldy seas for God to child of God will 
pray for God to be on our side. If He is with us it is more 
than all the world against us. 

God help us pray daily, if God is among us or not, just 
in our homes. 



LEVITICUS, 2D CHAPTER, 13TH VERSE 

I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the 
land of Egypt that ye should not be their bondsmen, and I 
have broken the bands of your yoke and made you go 
upright. 

I am thankful I can say the Lord is my Shepherd I shall 
not want. Any good things is well for His child to have if I 
continue to serve Him and obey His commandments. My 
God has brought me through many dangerous seas such as 
man has not power to do. God help us to trust God as we 
did when we was in the darkness of sin. God did not bring 
us out of the 'darkness of sin not until we fully trusted in 
Him with all our hearts, not a part of our heart. We gave 
Him all the best we knew how. Now we are a child of the 
King, not a bondsman of satan. We are out of the land of 
Egypt. God has broken the yoke of sin. We must stand 
fast when Christ has made us free. God has given all of 
His children that fully trusted in Him victory over death's 
hell and the grave. If we do our best and stand fast the 
winds may blow, the storms may rise; nothing can drive 
us from the living God. When God broke the yoke of sin 
and set us upright God gave us a command for the little 
things that come in our path. If we are not watching we 
will go back in Egypt. It is just what the devil wants a 
child of God to do. Who shall we watch? Our friend and 
brother that in sweet counsel with us. Often we get dis- 
couraged when our brother wounds us. We are not watch- 
ing. Go back in Egypt, we must please God, not man. If 
we stand fast wait on the Lord, He will bring everything to 
pass as He has promised us. The heaven and earth shall 
pass away. His word must stand. God has said so. Praise 
His Holy Name. God has given us victory over death's 
hell and the grave, taken us out of Egypt, has broken the 
yoke of sin. We are bondsmen of the living God. Praise 
His Holy Name for His goodness to us. 



NUMBERS, lOTH CHAPTER, 29TH VERSE 

And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel, the 
Midianits Moses' father-in-law, we are journeying unto the 
place of which the Lord said, I will give it you. Come then 
with us and we will do thee good, for the Lord hath spoken 
good concerning Israel. 

Who are us? We are sinners saved by the grace of God 
and believing in His word. What are we doing now? Pray- 
ing foi the power of God to keep us, that we may so journey 
in the Saviour's care, and find some unsaved soul and take 
them with us. Do them good in the name of God. Dear 
son, how can we do them good? In many different ways. 
One may help any one when they are stealing from a friencL 
Do not help one who speaks evil of any one. When one is 
going to a dance do not help them get ready. Tell them 
how much they will need the Saviour should a pain strike 
them when they are dancing. Do come and go with us. 
He will do thee good ; we will do thee good ; we will take 
you to a friend who has power to heal all sickness. Come, 
we will take you to a friend who will heal you when your 
heart is sick with sin. Come and go with us; we will do 
you good. We will take you to a friend that will stay with 
you when mother is passing away from this life. Come 
and go with us; we will do you good when all of your 
friends have forsaken you. Jesus will stay with you. Jesus 
will be your constant friend. Come and go with us. We 
will do you good when all of your family has gone from this 
life. Your heart is burdened with pain and sorrow. Come 
and go with us; we will take you to a friend who will give 
you an everlasting life. You will never die. When the 
storm comes you will not blow away. You will be so high 
no storm can go over; so deep, nothing can go under; so 
wide, nothing can go around it. Come and go with us; we 
will do you good. We will take you to Jesus; He will go 
with you through the valley of the shadow of death. 



DEUTERONAMY, 18TH CHAPTER, 17-18 VERSES 

And the Lord said unto me, they have spoken that which 
they have spoken. I will raise them up a prophet from 
among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put My 
words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I 
shall command him. 

God help us to speak of the living God and His right- 
eousness that will stand throughout endless ages of time. 
How shall our speaking stand for the living? God cannot. 
If God did not send us, who sent the speaking that did not 
stand a false prophet. How shall we know them. Their 
works die with them. They are nothing more than dead 
leaves. How shall we know a child of the living God? A 
child of God has power. With God, the hearts of God's 
children must be in touch with one another. God's word 
is a live wire. It must go on and on in the valley, over the 
mountain, under the sea current. It is so strong at times, 
when turned on in full, we open our mouths and give praises 
unto the living God. Others feel the power of God and 
expect the salvation. We fear them. How often we have 
reforce when we hear the word of God coming out some 
one's mouth, singing a song, they have been redeemed, 
washed in Jesus' blood. God has put His word in some 
one's mouth now. But a child of God can feel the power 
of this song and understand the meaning of God's children's 
song. Woe be unto every one who is singing God's song if 
God didn't give the song to them. Nothing but death for 
such; the song must die with them. If God's word be tiue. 
His word is firmer than the heavens; the depth we cannot 
find; the height we cannot reach; the breadth no man has 
been given power to go around; must come through the 
word of the living God. The word of the living God is in 
my mouth. I am giving the song God gave. We are speak- 
ing of the living God. God help us to be such a prophet as 
pleases Him, not man. 



JOSHUA, 4TH CHAPTER, 1-2 VERSES 

And it came to pass, when all the people had clean 
passed the Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, say- 
ing. Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every 
tribe a man. Come, let us go and see what the end will be* 
Do not loath back for the tempting things of this life often 
given us in different ways. God says, "He who puts his 
hand to the Gospel plough and looks back is not fit for the 
Kingdom." Should we get into the Kingdom after we have 
loath back. We will not get the first reward God had for 
us. Often the mountain is high, the valley is low, our 
strength is almost gone. Keep on in God's name. He is 
able to give His children all the strength that is needed in 
time of trouble. If we cannot climb the mountain, go 
through the valley. 

What will we do when we come to the River of Jordan? 
This is our trying time. If we fail at the River of Jordan 
we are lost; we cannot afford to let our souls go to hell. 
There has never been a traveler return from hell to tell us 
how long eternity is. We are on our journey, looking for 
some one to go with us. 

Where are you going? All the way through Jordan. If 
it is dark I must go on in God's name. How many would 
you have go with you through the cold, chilly streams of 
Jordan? As many as will go with me. I heard one say, I 
have not money to pay my way. Thank God this journey 
I am going to take is free to all mankind. Jesus paid the 
debt long ago for us all. Who will go and see what the 
end will be? I should like to hear twelve say, I will go in 
God's name and see what the end will be. It is a small 
number. Twelve that will not look back is better than arms 
of men starting through and loath. I am looking for the 
men that will go all the way, pass over the Jordan, not 
loathing back. 



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JUDGES, 6TH CHAPTER, 5TH VERSE 

For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and 
them came like grasshoppers for multitudes, for both they 
and their camels were without number. And they entered 
into the land to destroy it. 

The works of a wicked man is nothing more than a 
grasshopper to the power of God. Give us children if we 
only stand fast in Christ who has made us free. If god is 
on our side the gates of hell will not prevail against us. 

Stand fast. Grasshoppers come to a child of God in 
so many different ways we cannot afford to leave the things 
we have, if they are for God's salvation. Stand fast. God 
will drive the enemy back in His time and His way. 

How shall we stand for the salvation of the living God 
when so many stumbling back are in our way? 

First, we must pray in season and out of season. See if 
we cannot just as well pray if we do not watch the grass- 
hoppers that jump and hop in our path. They get in our 
path much easier than we can get them out. What shall 
we do? We cannot do anything if God is not on our side. 
If God is for us it is more than the world against us. Multi- 
tudes of camel may come in our path. God has ways for 
us and camels. He can get them out of the way. Stand 
fast in the liberty where Christ has made you free. If we 
are doing something good for the salvation of sinful man 
and the grasshoppers get in the way, call on God. He 
promises to get them out of the way. God's word is just 
the same today as it was in our mother's and father's day. 
The same God has brought us out of the darkness of sin in 
the sunlight of righteousness. God helps us. Do not let 
camels come in large numbers. Grasshoppers take the 
light of righteousness from us. 



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RUTH, 1ST CHAPTER, 6TH VERSE 

Then she arose with her daughter-in-law that she might 
return from the country of Moab, how that the Lord had 
visited the people, in giving them bread. 

We are pilgrims on a long journey, trying to walk the 
City of Gold. 0, that beautiful city! Who will come and 
go with us? First I want to see m the City is King Jesus. 
Who will come and go with us? Our daughter-in-law is 
with us. Is it enough to go \\ith us. No; our daughter is 
going with us. Some have gone. No, we are looking for 
other daughters that have not tasted the bread of life. Oh, 
how sweet it is to find some unsaved one that will go with 
us. Get the bread of life, drink from the fountain that will 
never run dry. God help us. King Jesus is the Bread of 
Life. He can, and will give the water. We will never 
thirst again. 

How shall we find them? He is willing to get the bread 
of life only by faith. How shaill we get the faith? Live 
the life before God and man that the world may see we 
are heavenly bread. It is sweet. We are trying to give it 
to all we can get acquainted with. This is a long journey; 
we get weak at times. What shall we do? Call on God; 
He will be with us in the time of trouble. He is the 
same today. God will not leave us in the time of trouble. 
What is troubling us? We are saved. It is not enough to 
be saved. We ourselves must try and save our daughters 
and sons of man. We are pilgrims looking for daughters. 
Go with us to the land of heavenly bread. God help us 
find such one to please Him. May God*s hand sit upoi 
the daughters and daughter-in-law until they find the bread 
of hfe. 



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FIRST SAMUEL, 1ST CHAPTER, 16TH VERSE 

Count not thine hand-maid for a daughter of Behal; for 
out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I 
spoken hitherto. 

Oh, that man may open his heart and let the salvation 
of God come in before the night of darkness comes upon 
them. If the sinful man lets the darkness come upon him 
and shut out the light of Christ, what will the cry of the 
unsaved be ? My day has passed. I am cut off, even to the 
thoughts of my heart. Where the tree falls it must lie to 
the north or south; it must say. Wha can God's hand-maid 
say? We have grieved for the salvation of this sinful- 
world. Man will rebel against God's word, calling on God 
to damn his soul that is full of sin and cramped with the 
evil things of this life. What shall the daughter Belial do? 
Our very best, calling on the living God that Hhe will re- 
main in sin. God has said one can choose a thousand to 
come. Put ten thousand to flight. God is the same God Ht 
was in old Daniel's time. He can hear and answer prayer 
the same as He did when he took the lions from Daniel ; he 
was not harmed. The same living God today. We can see 
him only with the eye of faith. God, help us to have such 
faith that pleases Him. One can climb mountains of sin 
if we trust God as the three Hebrew children. Three were 
put in the fire furnace. When the King looked in the 
furnace He said, we put three children in the furnace, be- 
hold, I see four. One looked Hke the son of the living God. 
All power is in the hand of God. I am the daughter of the 
living God, doing my best, praying God will be pleased 
with the work from my hands. 



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SECOND SAMUEL, 18TH CHAPTER, 13TH VERSE 



Otherwise, I should have wrought falsehood against mine 
own life; for there is no matter hid from the King, and 
thou, thyself, wouldst have set thyself against Me. 

King Jesus knew us before we were born in this world. 
He knew what we could do for Him and the salvation of 
sinful man. Be ye not deceived. God is not. Work, every 
one of us ; it is good for something in this life. God doesn't 
compel us to follow after Him. We are free; we can 
choose the way we want to go if we choose the ways of 
sinful man. We cannot fool God; we fool ourself and 
man. Only God knows us better than we do ourselves. 
God has the power. It has never been given to man. He 
looks in the heart of us all. When we try to fool God we 
are wasting our life. When we have lost our life we cannot 
get it back again. We are dead bodies, going around car- 
rying nothing but sin. If we are live bodies we must carry 
the light of the King Jesus Christ, Son of the living God. 
He will bring glad tidings and great joy to many unsaved 
men. When we are doing our best we often feel we have 
done nothing in the sight of God. In such time as this we 
axe giving our life as it pleases God. Keep on in well-doings. 
God only knows the heart of us all and what we are doing 
for Him. God help us. Do not wrought falsehood against 
our life. There is no horse chariots, no man, no Kings 
can save us in the hour of death. We cannot hide any- 
where from King Jesus Christ the Son of the living God. 



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FIRST KINGS, 18TH CHAPTER, 21ST VERSE 



And Elijah came unto all the people and said. How long 
halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow 
Him; but if Baal, then follow him. And the people an- 
swered hi mnot a word. 

When one has not decided to be a Christian they are 
halting between God and the devil, not decided who they 
shall serve. If we believe God is God, why not let Him 
knock at our hearts door and let Him in. God waits longer 
for us. Let Him in our hearts. Then any other friend 
will let Him in. God knocks for us; let Him in many dif- 
ferent ways. One way, when a friend asks you come, go to 
Christ, God is knocking. Then you go to the church. The 
minister asks you to come to Christ. God is knocking. 
When you get in trouble of some kind you say, When I get 
out I will be better. God is knocking in many different 
ways Why halt between these opinions, sinner. May God 
help you. Choose this day who you will serve before the 
night of darkness comes upon you. God has food for you 
sinners that will last longer than forty days; throughout 
eternity if you eat this food of righteousness. You can go 
in a den of thieves. Christ is there in some lonely cave. 
You will be filled with the food of righteousness. God is 
knocking for you. Choose this day who you will serve, 
sinner, if you choose Elijah or God. The wind and storms 
may come at any time. It cannot blow you away. We 
have now trusted in Elijah God has founded. In a crack 
is Christ Jesus. The fire may fall from heaven; it will only 
come same as Baal and those that follow after Baal. I 
pray God if the reader is not saved they will choose Ye this 
day. Who will you serve, Elijah? God will be your God if 
we trust in Elijah God. He will stay with us as no other 
friend can do. When the fire falls upon us call on Elijah's 
God. Not one will say a word. Elijah's God is the true 
and living God. 



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SECOND KINGS, 18TH CHAPTER, 6-7 VERSES 



For he clove to the Lord and departed not from following 
Him, but kept His commandments which the Lord com- 
manded Moses. And the Lord was with him and he pros- 
pered whithersoever he went forth; and he rebelled against 
the King of Assyria and served him not. 

0, for more faith in Christ the Son of the living God. 

How shall we have faith in God such as pleases Him? 
Leave off our ways, cleave unto God and His way. When 
the tempter comes along cleave unto the Lord, let nothing 
persuade us to depart from the Lord, Who is everything to 
us. If we called unto the Lord and keep His Command- 
ments we must shut our eyes and not sec the tempter when 
he stands before us. Shut our mouths, pray to God to give 
us just the word we should say sometimes. It is well to plug 
not here the singing of devils song the devil sang to a child 
of God. It is work to do this. Remember, we must work 
out our salvation with fear and trembling to gain the 
victory. We must have God on our side. We will not be 
strong enough to rebel against the evil man gives us. It is 
sweet to obey God's command and walk in the way of 
righteousness. Horses and chariots may come before us. 
God is with us. Nothing can take us away from the love of 
the living God. Shall we cleave the Lord and depart not 
from following after Him? Must endure hardness as good 
as Salger. Cannot get to heaven on the flowery beds of 
case. We must fight to win the praises and sail through the 
rough seas. Sometimes the storm is heavy. Country winds 
are blowing. What shall I do? Cleave to the Lord and 
not depart from following and keeping His Command- 
ments. Moses' God shall be my God; He is able to carry us 
through the valley and shadow of death if we rebel not, 
when God gives us His command. 



FIRST CHRONICLES, IITH CHAPTER, 1ST VERSE 

Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto He- 
bron, saying. Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. 

We Christians are the salt of the earth. What will be- 
come of the sons of man? If our salt has lasted it is only 
good to be cast out, not good for the dunghill. Should 
some unsaved man be found on a dunghill? If a Christian 
has cast his Saviour out he is no good. He has not a right 
religion to entertain only such things as dunghills contain. 
How can he ask God for His blessings and accept the bless- 
ings from God if not doing everything to get them in his 
way? We who have lost the seasoning of the salt God gave 
us do not hammer God as much as we do our daily earning. 
When we get our pay do we ever think who gave us the 
work that we may get bread for our children who are bones 
of our blood and our flesh? When they cry for us to help 
them we do our best for them. Often our hearts pain us 
as no one can see but God, because we cannot do more for 
our flesh and blood. What are we doing? Are we gather- 
ing any unsaved man to God? If we have been doing 
our best get up in God's name and strength; see what we 
can do for the salvation of our bones and flesh. Have we 
any bones of our bones, flesh of our flesh, unsaved in our 
home? We love our bones and flesh. Will we Christians 
let them starve away and die out of Christ? Where is our 
salt God gave us? Has it lasted. Saviour? All of our chil- 
dren are gathering themselves around telling us they are our 
bones, flesh of our flesh. What shall we do, feed them with 
the word of the living God? Shall we feed them? Pray 
God for heavenly food for our bones now and our flesh, such 
as will stand when we have gone from labor to our reward. 



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SECOND CHRONICLES, 5TH CHAPTER, 1ST VERSE 

Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of 
the Lord was finished; and Solomon brought in al Ithe 
things that David, his father, had dedicated; and the silver, 
and the gold, and all the instruments put he among the 
treasures of the House of God. 

What are we doing for the Building of God? Are we 
trying to put in such furniture as Solomon did? Our moth- 
ers and fathers have gone and left the work for us. If we 
are the children of God and living in God's House we must 
do our best to keep it in repair for God in some way. That 
pleases Him. What shall we keep in God's House? Noth- 
ing but pure gold. Shall we do it by faith and pray? Who 
can help us do this work? Mother, no; father, no; friend, 
po. We must keep God's House ourselves when our Heav- 
enly Father comes. We can entertain Him in a well-kept 
house. Who will pay us for our labor? What kind of pay 
are we expecting? Heavenly pay only God can give us. 
Are we trying to bring some unsaved one in our house that 
they can see and taste how sweet the goodness of salvation? 
If God helps us do our best we might please Him in every 
way. We lay up treasures in our homes for the rainy day. 
It is a good thought. A man is wise for preparing for him- 
self and those in his care. If the mouth eats his goods 
what then? If thieves break in his house and steal his 
goods, he has nothing. God help us look for treasures for 
God's House as King Solomon did. Thieves cannot break 
in and steal the salvation God gave us. We will have 
treasures such as King Solomon had — gold and silver. 



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EZRA, lOTH CHAPTER, 25TH VERSE 

But when Esther came before the King He commanded 
by letters that his wicked device which he devised against 
the Jews should return upon his own head, and that he and 
his sons should be hanged on the gallows. 

Esther was a beautiful woman. The King loves Esther 
more than all women. God cares little for our beauty. The 
heart is what God wants, filled with purity. An evil heart 
is the case of much danger in many different ways. What 
can and evil heart do? First, if evil gets in our hearts get 
it out as soon as possible. If it remains, great danger of 
envy of our brother's house. Hold good, too. Take from 
our brother his wife ; steal from our brother his money ; will 
not pay our debts. Why not pay our debts? Think our 
brother has much just because he has more than us? Evil 
is in the heart; it has almost closed the door. Christ 
comes in. If we keep entertaining evil the worse is to come 
yet. We will be murderers of some one that will be of 
much service in the Master's case. Keep entertaining evil. 
It has stayed in the heart so long it cannot get out. No 
room in our hearts for Christ and His Holy Spirit. Noth- 
ing more we can do but die. Cannot wait for God to take 
us out of the world. Must hang on the gallows. Keeping 
just what we saw, let it be good or bad. The King did not 
treat the Jews as he should have them treat him. 

May God help us to pray for our brother and ourselves 
that we may sow good seed, not do the things which will 
bring Jews and Kings to the gallows. 



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NEHEMIAH, 2D CHAPTER, 13TH VERSE 



And as I went out by night by the gate of the valley, 
even before the dragon well and to the dung port and 
viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, 
and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. 

We Christians should be sad on account of the sinful 
gates in our city. They are falling down on account of our 
FatUer's sinful children. Shall we stop the sinful gate from 
falling any more? Our Father's unsaved children keep 
them from falling in the valley of darkness and despair. 
First, we should pray God for ourselves. If we have faith 
with Him that we will build the gate of sin that they will 
not fall down any more on our Father's children. The first 
step is to get a new supply of timber to build the house and 
gate for the salvation of our Father's sinful children. What 
kind of timber shall we use for the gate and wall? The 
ver>' best, as God demands of us. That is, pray and faith 
to God that we Christians will keep our house and gate from 
the welfare of our children in our city. How shall we do 
this? Keep getting a new supply of grace every day. That 
God had more laborers who will go in the vineyard and 
work. The harvest is ripe, the laborers are few. How 
,many different ways are the walls and gates falling down? 
Burnt with sin, card playing, dancing, intoxicating drink. 
Are we doing our best for our children that they may not 
stoop to these wicked sins? Though some of us are help- 
ing our children in these sinful pledges God help us to 
stand at the gate of righteousness. Help all we meet with to 
build a wall of righteousness that will stand hroughout 
eternity. 



ESTHER, 9TH CHAPTER, 3-4 VERSES 



And when I heard this thing I rent my garment and my 
mantle and plucked off the hair of my head and of my 
beard, and sat down astonished. They were assembled 
unto me every one that trembled at the word of the God of 
Israel because of the transgressions of those that had been 
carried away and I sa astonished until the evening sacrifice. 

Come, let us make a decree unto God. We will pull down 
the old house of sin and build a house for God; one that 
He can live in. How can we do this if we have entertained 
sinful things in our house? We must do away with them 
before we can make a decree for God. If our garments 
have caused us to sin against the will of Almighty God, cut 
the hair of God. If our eye is evil we must get the evil out 
of our one eye before we can see evil in our brother's eye. 
We should not make sacrifices if we do not keep them. 
It is best not to make them if we do not keep them in the 
way that pleases our Heavenly Father. God is pleased 
with every good thing we do for Him. He has wisdom to 
know when we are doing our best. Let it be the simplest 
act, God will pay us in large number. The unsaved man 
is astonished, does not understand a Christian making sacri- 
fice to God. They would assemble unto us and be aston- 
ished and tremble if they could find out the power of the 
Almighty God. If our hair, or beard, or garment has 
caused us trouble at the word of God in our transgression 
God help us make a decree sacrifice such as pleases Him. 



SI 



JOB, 22D CHAPTER, 21ST VERSE 

Acquaint now thyself with Him and be at peace ; thereby 
good shall come unto thee. 

How will it be with us when the trumpet of God shall 
sound so loud it will make the dead arise? If we have not 
acquainted ourselves with God in peace. With Him it is not 
enough to believe in God. We must repent of our sins with 
all our hearts and souls. Do our best at all times for the 
salvation of man. Keep praying for God's divine power to 
keep us from sin. In this way one of His weakest children 
can get more acquainted with the ways of God. Strength 
will come to us such as no one can give only the Son of the 
living God. Such strength will enable us to go for Him. 
When we are tired and sleepy no one can go this way only 
a short time. If we are not in peace with God we must 
please God for our work to stand for His case and salvation 
of man. I am doing my best with the help of God to put 
away inacquity far from my tabernacles. Lay up gold as 
dust; yea, the Almighty God will send a wind at His com- 
mand and blow the dust of gold in some unsaved heart. I 
pray God for his light. When trouble comes to us God help 
us stand for His salvation as pure gold. We must trust 
God at all times and remember what Job said. When God 
told Satan, Behold, Job is in thine hand but save his life, 
not one word against God when Job's wife thought Ov^st to 
curse God and die. Why did Job trust i?i God? Job was 
not at peace with God. We cannot bear our troubles as 
Job did. We, who are acquainted with God, must have 
some trouble. We must bear them for God's sake in this 
v/ay. We will have peace with God when we are going 
through the valley and shadow of death. We who are in 
peace will have god to go with us. 



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PSALMS, 107TH CHAPTER, 1-2-3.4-5-6.7.8 VERSES 

0, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for his 
mercy endureth forever. Let them be redeemed from the 
hand of the enemy and gather then out of the lands from 
the East and from the West, from the North and from the 
South. 

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they 
found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul 
fainted in them. Then they cried unto the Lord in their 
trouble and He delivered them out of their distress. And 
He led them forth by the right way that they might go to a 
city of habitation. 

Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness 
and for His wonderful work to the children of men. How 
shall we begin to thank God for His goodness to us first? 
Thanks is for giving His dear Son all heaven had to this 
sinful world that we might be redeemed from our sins. If 
we have been redeemed, who should give praises to His 
Holy Name first in our homes? Praise God's Holy Name 
first in the street, in every home "we go in. Salt it with 
praises to the name of the living God. Do our best to get 
some unsaved one to praise God. Are we Christians pleas- 
ing God in this way? Yes. What reward will we get? 
God will bless us in this life in such way that pleases Him. 
Must we be pleased if God don't bless us in the way we 
have prayed for Him to do? Yes, God knows just what 
is best for His children better than we do. We must praise 
God for our homes we live in, for the furniture in our 
homes. Thank God for the food we bring in our market 
baskets before we think of getting it ready to eat. When 
we have prepared our food the way we like it thank God 
for the health we have to eat it. Thank God after we 
have eaten the food that hunger has been taken away from 
us. It is the hand of God that is leading us and our chil- 
dren out of danger and distress. God help us to be thank- 
ful as the birds are giving praise to His Holy Name. 



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PROVERBS, 9TH CHAPTER, 1-2 VERSES 

Wisdom hath builded her house; she hath hewn out her 
seven pillars; she hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled 
her wine ; she has also furnished her table. 

We are all building a house of some kind. Must be for 
some good or bad. Who are we building for? Doing my 
best for wisdom such as pleases God. Have we anything 
in our .house such as pleases God? Doing my best. What 
are we Christians doing with our tables? Yes, I am 
thankful I have a table in my house for the living God. I 
am keeping food on my table. Have some to spare though 
for the unsaved man or woman. How do the unsaved get 
food from my house? Often I carry my table to them. 
My house is the Temple Jesus lives in. My table is the food 
of righteousness Jesus set in my heart. When he takes 
away the old stony heart He gives me a heart of flesh when 
I rest upon my pillow. If Jesus is not there a child of God 
cannot rest in any place.. If Jesus is not there it is not 
wisdom for a Christian to do anything we would not have 
God come and find us doing. We must watch as well as 
pray. Know not what hour the Son of man will come for 
us. What shall we do? Give all we have in the care of 
God. If we have a beast, give them to the care of Jesus. If 
we have wine in our building, give it to God. Have noth- 
ing we cannot keep in God's care. God help us Christians 
to be strong in His faith, to keep everything we have in 
God's care that we will apply our hearts to such wisdom as 
pleases Him. 



ECCLESIASTES, lOTH CHAPTER, 1-2 VERSES 

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send 
forth a stinking savor; so doth a little folly him that is in 
reputation for wisdom and honor. 

Second. A wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a 
fooFs heart at his left. 

Oh, for a pure heart to praise our God that He will be 
pleased at the ointment we bring Him. I would Hke to 
have my ointment as sweet as the ointment Mary anointed 
Jesus' feet. He was pleased; it had a sweet-smelling savor. 
Mary was a true child of the living God. Jesus loved Mary. 
Jesus will love us as He did Mary. He has no respect of 
persons. What kind of ointment are we Christians carrying 
with us daily. 

What is our ointment good for; is it good for Jesus to 
smell, the kind that pleases Him? 

God help us to think more about what bad ointment is 
good for dead flies; live flies are but a mite; we can drive 
them away. Dead flies is death if we carry them with us. 

What apothecary are you going to to get ointment? 
Same one we have been going to for King Jesus Christ. His 
ointment has never failed me in any of my diseases. I am 
trying my best to find some one who will let Him in his 
hear. If you will not let Jesus come in the heart you have 
turned away your best friend. 

God help every unsaved man to apply his heart to wis- 
dom and honor. Try to be the wise one. Keep you heart 
at the right hand. 

I am prayinip: for the hearts of men that they may not be 
folly. Get wisdom and honor. God will pay us for every- 
thing we do for Him. 

God is so good He pays us when we are working for our- 
selves. He is the only friend that treats us so kind. God 
help us apply our hearts to wisdom. 

25 



SOLOMON SONG, 2D CHAPTER, 11-1243 VERSES 

Eleventh. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over 
and gone. 

Twelfth. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of 
the singing of the birds is come, and the voice of the turtle 
is heard in the land. 

Thirteenth. The big tree putteth forth her green figs, and 
the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell. Arise, 
my love, my fair one, and come away. 

I am calling the unsaved. God help them to take the 
plugs out of their ears, that they may hear the call that 
sweet call of salvation. We know not how soon we will 
see the last winter's rain over and gone; we see the 
flowers appear in their beauty for the last time. God only 
knows how soon we will be called from the earth. The fig 
tree putting forth her green figs, the vine with the tender 
grapes giving a good smell. When we smell the grape our 
hearts should give praise to the living kindness oi God 
towards us. The unsaved men are not doing as well for 
God as the flowers that appear with their beauty. We 
all like flowers and admire them. 

Man not liking his one soul, all he has, letting it starve 
away and die for food that they will not hunger again m 
the life to com.e. Arise, come away from the sinful things 
of this life. Seek eternal life such as man cannot give, 
only the living God. 

Is it possible the living turtle is giving more praise to God 
than the man who has a soul must die and go to hell if he 
has not made his peace with God? Man, arise, come away 
from sin. I hear the birds singing their sweet songs, givmg 
praise to God in heaven. I see the fig leaves slapping their 
hands, giving praise to God. Come and go see what the 
end will be with them that give praises to god after the 
winter has past and is gone. 



26 



ISAIAH, 53D CHAPTER, 3-4 VERSES 

Third. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of 
sorrow and acquainted with grief; and we hide, as it were, 
our faces from Him. He was despised, and we esteemed 
Him not. 

Fourth. Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our 
sorrov/s; yet we did esteem Him, stricken, smitten of God 
and afflicted. 

Just think how many times Jesus has spoken to the wind, 
saying, "Peace be still,*' that we would not be blown away 
in our sins. Oh, that man would stop long enough to see 
how good God is. Give praise unto His Holy Name. I 
thank my God for this warning July 24. I did not reject 
the blessed Saviour when He called me to do this work. 
Hoping it will not be despised as man rejected our blessed 
Lord, a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief. How 
often we have been despised and rejected v/hen doing our 
best that man might not run from the word of God. Shall 
we stop? No, go on in Jesus' name; praise Him if we 
stand alone in this world. Remember how Jesus bore our 
grief. Must we get discouraged and stop trying to find man 
who rejected our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? 
Not so; go to the fountain, get a fresh drink. We will be 
stronger than before. How is this? It seems a mystery 
Not so to a child of the living God why His power is able to 
keep all who trust in Him. If our friends despise us and 
say all manner of evil against us what shall we do? Keep 
on. Our pay is at the end of the journey, not at the begin- 
ning. Get acquainted with carrying grief for Jesus. He 
v/as despised and rejected of man. Our goodness is noth- 
ing more than filthy rags to God's righteousness, yet He 
bore our grief and carried our sorrows that we may not be 
afflicted with sin. 



27 



JEREMIAH, 9TH CHAPTER, 1-2 VERSES 



Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain 
of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of 
the daughter of my people ! 

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of way- 
faring men, that I might leave my people and go from 
them! For they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacher- 
ous men. 

Christians, it is time for us to wake up from our slumbers. 
Our daughters are going to ruin. What shall we do to save 
them from the temptations set before them? First, we must 
seek God. There is nothing too hard for God to do if we 
live that near God that we can ask His blessing from Him. 
Sometimes the fault is in us in a great many different ways. 
One way, are we living the life of a true Christian, praying 
for God's divine grace to keep us from falling into tempta- 
tion and sin? If we do our best God will help us on our 
journey. Have our daughters seen us do any sinful thing 
we forbid them not to do? If so, our spiritual influences are 
in vain God help us to gird up our loins and watch as well 
as pray. If we are not watching the evil one will steal the 
answer from our prayers. Let our head be waters and our 
eyes a fountain of tears, that we will seek for t!;e salva- 
tion of sinful men. God help us to go in the wil mess and 
look for the lost ones that have gone astray, ii»fn gently 
tell them how sweet it is to eat the bread of life, drink from 
the fountain only God can supply.. The water is as clear 
as crystal, running from a stream that neve" runs dry. God 
help us Christians to leave our people re e sary and look 
for the wayfaring man, and find a lodging place in the 
hearts for our Lord, Saviour Jesus Christ. 
Lord, our Saviour Jesus Christ. 



28 



LAMENTATIONS, 4TH CHAPTER, 1ST VERSE 



How is the gold become dim? How is the most fine gold 
changed? The stones of the sanctuary are poured out in 
the top of every street. 

How can a man fall from grace easy? If not watching 
the little things come in a Christian's way. 

How do they come? In many different ways. Some- 
times by eating food that is not well for a child of God to 
eat. Read between the lines. 3. Looking for beauty, God 
is not in it; God is looking for the purity of our hearts. 
4. Walking in the traps set for a child of God. No traps 
are set for the devil. How did I get in such as this? I was 
once a strong Christian, bringing in the harvest for my 
Heavenly Father; my gold shined brightly. Has it become 
dim? Howw did I change my gold? By yielding to sin 
offered me when I was with my friends. What shall I do? 
Pray just as well, keep on in sin. 

If not watching, the devil can make better beer drinkers 
out of a child of God than out of His own. Much better 
liars, better dancers, better thieves. How can they do this? 
It was once my brother. I did not know he had lost his 
gold. How shall we know when our brothers or sisters have 
lost his or her gold? The only way, we must watch our 
own self; keep near God; He will make us to see sin com- 
ing to us in every form the devil sends it to us. God will 
teach His children just what to do. Can we lose our gold 
in this way? Yes, God may show us and tell us what things 
God bids us do; if not, our gold becomes dim. If we dis- 
obey God we will change from the salvation of God. Our 
talents will be poured out in the streets, good for nothing 
but to be trodden under foot of man. God help us to keep 
our gold bright and not let it become dim. 



29 



EZEKIEL,33D CHAPTER, 1-2 VERSES 



First. Again the word of the Lord came unto me saying: 

Second. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, 
and say unto them. When I bring the sword upon a land 
take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman. 

Oh, that I could hear one say the voice of God is calling 
them, go and find thy people and tell them the sword is 
upon the land in many different ways. What will you do? 
Will you be obedient and eat the good of the land? But 
if you refuse and rebel you will be damned with the 
sword. The sword is death. When it comes it cuts man off 
from this life into eternity. Speak to the children of thy 
people. Tell them what blessed peace we have with God; 
how sweet it is to have His dear Son to go with us through 
the dark valley of death. We all need Him in the hour of 
death. How will it be with thy people if they have not 
blessed peace with the living God? It will be sad. We are 
speaking to our people, calling them the best we know how. 
Will you turn from the darkness of sin and come to the light 
of righteousness? What hinders you? Did a man of your 
coast hinder you from accepting salvation? Did a friend's 
dance hinder you? Did a son's card party hinder you? 

All of my friends are unsaved, I cannot leave them. All 
of these things are death and the sword. What will you do ? 
Will you despise the word of God and go your way to hell? 
Will you be obedient and eat the good of the land, and 
take a man of thy coast and be a watchman for the salva- 
tion of thy people? 



30 



DANIEL, 3D CHAPTER, 47TH VERSE 

The King answered unto Daniel and said of a truth it is 
that your God is a God of Gods, and a Lord of Kings, and 
a levealer of secret seeing thou couldst reveal this secret. 

All Christians are a mystery to the world; only a child 
of the living God can get the mysteries such as God gives 
them. How do we get secrets? By having faith in God at 
all times and every place. It is first most needed in our 
homes. Shut your door, keep the devil out, watch the win- 
dow he is likely to get in. Open the window of your heart 
to God three times a day. Can any one stop us from pray- 
ing? No, I thank God He has given all of His children a 
right to pray at all times. Can v/e pray as well at all 
times? No, when we are wounded sometimes we can only 
groan. God knows the meaning of our groaning to Him. 
If we have faith in God He can take mountains of sin from 
us. Can our faith be taken away from us? No man is 
given the power to know how much faith a child of the 
living God has. Keep on praying to God; sometime He 
will reveal to us the secrets that is well for us to have. 
Have you ever been in the den of Lions? Yes, many times; 
not the same kind of den as Daniel's. We have lions walk- 
ing with us every day. Who keeps the lions from eating 
us? If we keep praying to God as Daniel did in oldentimes 
God helps us to keep praying for salvation of unsaved men 
so that they may say, as the King, **Your God is a God of 
Gods, a Lord of Kings, and a revealer of secrets." 



31 



HOSEA, 2D CHAPTER, 2D VERSE 

Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, 
neither am I her husband. Let her, therefore, put away her 
whoredoms out of her sight and her adulteries from between 
her breast. 

We Christians must stand fast; the journey will soon be 
over. If we do not plead with our mothers how shall they 
come to Christ? What shall they do when the wrath of God 
is upon them? What will your wife do when God comes to 
judge the deeds done in our bodies? No time for gettmg 
ready, for God must put away her whoredoms out of her 
sight, her adulteries from between her breasts. How shall 
it be done? Pray to God for His divine grace to get in our 
hearts, take away from us the sinful things of this life that 
come in our way. How shall we begin to give it all to 
Jesus Christ? Wives, give up your husbands; husbands, 
give up your wives. Children, plead with mother, for the 
day of God's wrath is coming. None but the righteous shall 
stand before Him in peace. When we go before God to 
give account of the deeds done in our bodies we cannot take 
everything or person with us. We must go to God as we 
came in the world, with nothing. Mother nor father cannot 
go for us in the time of death. Get ready, for the great day 
will surely come. Who will be able to stand before our 
Great Judge and King? God help the sinful mother, father, 
wife and husband. Leave off the sinful things of this life. 
Start for the Kingdom before the night of darkness comes 
upon them. 



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JOEL, 1ST CHAPTER, 6TH VERSE 

For a nation is come upon my land, strong and without 
number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath 
the cheek teeth of a great lion. 

Children, little children, stand fast in the liberty where 
Christ has made you free. If a child of God is free his or 
her sins have been taken away from them. We are on our 
journey to the city of refuge. What shall we do with the 
teeth of lion? It is best to give them to God. We cannot 
handle them; they are too sharp; they will stick in us if 
we try to get them out of our path. If we have not God on 
our side we are done for. We cannot stand before the sin 
Satan sends to us if God is not with us. Satan has a large 
army with him at all times. His army outnumbers a child 
of God. Satan sends us snakes, dogs, lions, bears, foxes, 
drunkards, gamblers, thieves, wolves in sheep's clothing in 
the path of one child of the living God. Let Jesus lead you 
all the way. He is a captain who never lost a battle, if we 
march when we are ordered to do so. 

How is it some Christians give up the journey for Christ? 
You would never know that they ever had a part in Christ 
Why? They let some of the devils get on their journey and 
take away from them the weapon God gave them. Was it 
the snake, dog, lion, bear, fox, drunkard or gambler, thieves 
or wolves? God only knows the right one. What was the 
Christian doing when this large number came upon them, 
not watching? God help us to watch and pray at all times. 



33 



AMOS, 5TH CHAPTER, 23-24 VERSES 

Twenty-third. Take thou away from me the noise of thy 
song, for I will not hear the melody of thy voice. 

Twenty-foun But let judgment run down as water, 
righteousness as a mighty stream. 

A Christian must get wisdom and understanding. Oft- 
times it is much needed going on our pilgrim journey. If 
we make the city of gold we must be lambs in the minds of 
raving wolves. How shall we do this? Pray to God for 
judgment. The wolves are running us all the time; when 
we are asleep the wolves are planning how they can devour 
us, when we begin our day's journey for the city of gold. 
The wolves are found in every place a child of God goes, 
let it be on land or sea. The wolves are in our homes, often 
in the worst way. Can there be more than one in our home? 
Yes, often numbers of them. What shall we do? Pray to 
God for judgment that we may overpower them in the right 
way and not be overpowered by the wolves; if so, we have 
gone back in the wilderness. This is the place the devil 
can harm us much. Why is the wilderness in darkness? 
We cannot see the clear stream of water of righteousness 
if we have lost our judgment. God help us keep our right- 
eousness we prayed so hard for; keep our eyes open at all 
times. Ofttimes they come to a child of God in little things 
when we are not thinking of them. What shall we do? 
Watch as well as pray; just as well stop praying if not 
watching. God help us to so live for the salvation of men 
that our righteousness will run through them as clear as 
a stream of water from the living God. 



34 



OBADIAH, 1ST CHAPTER, 15TH VERSE 



For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen. As 
thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee. Thy reward 
shall return unto thine own head. 

We are sowing, sometimes for years. During this time 
we can do much good for God or the devil, sowing in many 
different ways. One may sow the seed of drunkenness; 
many drunkards are coming up sowing the seed of gam- 
blers; many gamblers are in this world through one. Is 
this all the harm one can do? No, sowing the seed of 
thieves, many thieves come from one thief. Stealing all ? No, 
lying. Often men are sowing the seed of murderers ; all of 
this is from one who has the largest number, God or the 
devil. Who has a large crowd, what shall become of such 
ones? They must reap just what they sow, let it be good 
or bad. If done to drunkards, reap their reward; if to a 
gambler, reap gambler's reward; thieves reap thieves' re- 
ward; murderers reap murderers' reward. If all of this 
comes on a man's head he cannot carry his head; it must 
be burned by fire. As man has done, it shall be done unto 
him again. What reward will the Christian get if they sow 
seeds of kindness such as pleases God? We get paid ac- 
cording to what we do, working on commission. If we do a 
righteous man's work we will get a righteous man's pay. 
God said our reward shall return upon our heads. I am 
doing my best for my reward to be a crown filled with 
stars that only God can give to the righteous who have 
borne the burden for God in the heat of the day. 



35 



JONAH, 1ST CHAPTER, 4TH VERSE 

But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea and there 
was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was likely 
to be broken. 

God is not pleased with us Christians if we are not obedi- 
ent children. We must obey God and do His bidding regard- 
less of what comes against us. If we are not of age, parents 
bid us do something God speaks to the conscience. Tell 
your parents God has bid you do His bidding. Every Chris- 
tian parent will get out of the way for another Christian to 
do our Heavenly Father's bidding. I feel that every Chris- 
tian should be thankful to God for chasing their children 
to work in His vineyard. What about Jonah? Was he a 
man or a child? He was a man of age. Why did he go in 
this great ship running from God's command as many of 
us are doing this day? Why run from God? All power is 
in His hands. He can, and does, give His power to those 
He pleases to give it to. Has God ever called you to go into 
His vineyard and work for Him? Yes, many times. Why 
did you not obey? Waiting for a more convenient day. 
Has it ever come to you? No, it seems to be farther away 
from me now. 

Then when God calles us to work for Him it is the hour 
for us Christians to wake up and go about our Heavenly 
Father's work before the night of darkness comes upon us. 
If we have done wrong and disobeyed, go, repent, when 
God tempests the ship you flee to Him for refuge. Repent 
as Jonah did, and pray to God to pardon you before it is 
too late. When the ship was lost on the ocean Jonah knew 
God was displeased; when he was thrown out of the ship 
God had the fish already to catch Jonah. He had to pray, 
and he prayed out from the fish's belly; Jonah said it was 
the belly of hell. God help us whom He has chosen to keep 
his command. 



36 



MICAH, 5TH CHAPTER, 1ST VERSE 

Now gather thyself in troops, daughters of troops; he 
hath laid siege against us. They shall smite the Judge 
Israel with a rod upon the cheek. 

There is nothing too hard for God to do if we trust in 
Him. Man will let us go and see what the end will be. 

If God would take us daughters all out of the world there 
would be a vacant chair, one in mourning, never out. 

We can get troops for our Heavenly Father and march on 
the battlefield for Jesus if we invite Him to go with us. 
Come, let us go and see what the end will be. There is no 
judge that can hinder us if we have our sword in our hand. 

What kind of sword have you; is it silver or gold? Pure 
gold, the best heaven can afford. What is the name of your 
sword? The Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the Son of the 
living God. Who gave you orders to gather troops for the 
battlefield? Look and see what a foundation the daughters 
of God have ; it is the rock Christ Jesus. 

We are standing and nothing can move us if we have not 
the power to move the rock Christ Jesus. 

He is so high nothing can go over Him; so low, nothing 
can go under Him ; so wide, we cannot go around Him. All 
power is His. He can send just whom He pleases. 

Daughter, are you doing your best to get troops to war 
against Satan? Is your rod in hand ready to take orders 
for marching in the valley of sin and the devil? Get weak? 
What shall we do? Gird up your loins, march on in Jesus* 
name. In what was is prayer and faith to believe and trust 
God all the way, when the Judges rise against us? If God 
is on our side we can, and will, smite them down upon the 
cheek. Daughter, come, go and see what the end will be. 



37 



NAHUM, 3D CHAPTER, 1-2 VERSES 

First. Wbe to the bloody city; it is full of lies and rob- 
bery; their prey departeth not. 

Second. The noise of a whip and the noise of the rat- 
tling of wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the 
jumping chariots. 

Who are we? Children of God, trusting in the Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ. Did He disappoint you in every way ? 
No. Did you call on Jesus in time of trouble and did 
Jesus help you? Yes. What did you do for Jesus? Noth- 
ing. Did you promise Jesus you would serve Him always, 
better than before? Yes. Did you do it? No. What have 
you done? Lead to the Almighty God and rebelled the Al- 
mighty God. 

Our city is full of lies and bloody men and women. God 
is displeased at such people as this. Hear the rattling of 
wheels, prancing of horses' feet. What meaneth this? 
God is displeased with man. Can we, whom God loves, help 
the bloody city if we can find the number God requires? 
How shall we begin? First, find the man who is willing to 
help himself. How shall we begin? The only way is pray- 
ing to God for the pardoning of his sins. Did you find 
some one? Only a promise. Did the man keep this promise 
he made God? No. If they try to fool God, what shall 
we expect of them? Nothing but lies and robbery. What 
will become of such men when they come down to death? 
If they have not departed from their sins will God have 
lies and bloody men in His Holy Kingdom? Not so. Noth- 
ing but the righteous shall see God's face in peace. What 
will become of lies and bloody men? I hear the rattling 
of wheels and prancing of horses' feet and jumping chariots 
taking away lies and bloody men. 



38 



MBAKKUR, 2D CHAPTER, 15TH VERSE 

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest 
thy bottle to him and maketh him drunken; also that thou 
mayest look on their nakedness. 

When we were little children our parents cared for us in 
many different ways. First, when the child is born in this 
cold, chilly world, its clothing is put on it. In fact, the 
clothing is prepared for the child before it is born. Second, 
something is put in its little mouth. We who are mothers 
handle our children with the greatest of care. Often our 
hearts are in trouble on account of not having more to give 
them. Third, we who are Christians do our best that the 
little ones we love so well see Christ in mother. If the child 
sees Christ in its parents it is not hard to get the child to 
accept Christ. If so, the child's heart is ready to hear the 
word of God when he or she is grown in this cold world; 
grown, now, and gone out in this world for him or herself. 
Dear mother has gone, never to return to the child. 

The child can go to mother. Is the child ready, should 
the death angel come for mother's boy or girl in the still 
watch of the night? No. Why? My neighbor gave me 
drink. I am a drunkard, standing naked in this cold world, 
no God, no mother. 

This is what often happens to our children we love so 
well. God help us Christians to live the life. God is speak- 
ing to us every day through some of His chosen ones, or 
His voice is ringing in our ears. Live the life of the right- 
eous man ; not be a drunkard. If you have been, stop, and 
pray God take the taste from us, not give drink to our 
neighbors, make then drunk nor naked when the death 
angel comes for them. 



39 



ZEPHANIA, 3D CHAPTER, 1-2 VERSES 

First. Woe to her that is filthy and to the oppressing 
city. 

Second. She obeyed not the Voice. She reclined not 
correction. She trusted not in the Lord. She drew not 
near to her God. 

Woe to the one that will not hear to the word of God 
when given to them. The raven of the valley shall pick it 
out. The young eagle shall eat it. Will you be ready for 
the bridegroom when he comes? If not ready, the door will 
be shut. God will not hear the cry of the foolish one; if 
unjust, must remain as they are; if filthy, must be filthy still. 
Oh, sinner, God is calling you by lightning, calling you by 
thunder, calling you by the heavy wind. All of these things 
are telling us we must die sooner or later. What will the 
harvest be? Nothing but leaves only good for fire to burn 
them. God is good; He keeps the lightning from striking 
us, the thunder, the storm. All of this is to give us a time 
for repentence. 

Sinner, have you ever thought how good God is to us? 
Man calling on God to damn his soul. His soul is already 
damned. God is good. Praise His Holy Name. 



40 



HAGGAI, 1ST CHAPTER, 6TH VERSE 



Ye have sown much and bring in little. Ye have not 
enough. Ye eat, but ye have not enough. Ye drink, but ye 
are not filled with drink. Ye clothe you, but there is none 
warm, and he that earneth wages earnest wages to put into 
a bag with holes. 

Backslider, what have you done with the seed of right- 
eousness God gave you when He pardoned you of your 
sins? Have you sown them in stony ground? What did 
you do with the food of righteousness you ate when your 
sins were taken away from you? Do you ever get hungry 
any more? Has the taste of salvation left you? Where do 
you get your drink from now? You did drink from salva- 
tion's well at one time. Has that sweet taste left you? Do 
you ever feel as though you must come back to the God you 
did love so well? Does your clothing feel as warm to you 
now ? What have you done with them ? You were working 
for the salvation of sinful man. God has wages for you. 
Will you let His wages run from you, or will you return and 
come back to the fold of God again? God is waiting to 
pardon you of your sins and backsliding. Will you come? 
May God help you to turn from sin unto righteousness. 



4z 



ZACHARIAH, 4TH CHAPTER, 1ST VERSE 

And the Angel that talked with me came again and 
awakened me, as a man that is awakened out of his sleep. 

Eecond. And said unto me. What seek thou? And I 
said, I have looked and behold a candlestick all of gold with 
bowl upon the top of it and his seven lamps thereon and 
seven pipes to the seven lamps which are upon the top 
thereof. 

How sweet it is to talk with the children of the living 
God. We can commune one with another. We can sit in 
sweet council together Praise His Holy Name. Some day 
we shall see the seven candlesticks all of God as Zachariah 
saw them. I fancy Zachariah is drinking out of the bowl 
set upon the top of his shining lamp. The lamp is giving 
light of welcome to God's Saints whom have borne the 
burden for Him in the heat of the day. The seven pipes are 
giving sweet music for Zachariah and those who will meet 
him around the throne of God in heaven. We who have 
started for the city of gold must not look back. Keep pray- 
ing for God to give us the faith such as Zachariah had. He 
was a small man; he wanted to see Jesus. What did he do? 
He went up in a high tree. Jesus called him down and said. 
This day I must abide in your house. 

God help us all to have faith, such faith that will keep 
Jesus abiding at our house as He did Zachariah's house. 



42 



ffALACHI, 2D CHAPTER, 1-2 VERSES 



First. And now, ye priest, this Commandment is for 
you. 

Second. If ye will not hear and if ye will not lay it to 
heart to give glory unto My name, saith the Lord of Hosts 
I will even send a curse upon you and I will curse your 
blessing. Yea, I have cursed them already. Because ye do 
not lay it to heart. 

I praise God, first, for the gift of His dear Son whom He 
gave to this sinful world that we might be saved from our 
sin. Second, for pardoning me of my sins when my heart 
felt the need of a Saviour's care at the age of ten years. 
God is good not to allow the devil to get me when he could 
use me until I would turn against the works of the Almighty 
God. God is good to us for giving us the right to the tree 
of life. What shall we do for Him? We should do our 
best and keep His Commandments and lay it to heart. Give 
glory to the name of the Almighty God, that He will bless 
the work from our hands. 

How sad it is for us not to please our Heavenly Father 
when He bids us go in His vineyard and work for Him. God 
only chooses the one for His work who can do just what He 
wants done for His cause. God help us to keep His Com- 
mandment at heart that we will get His blessing, not curses 
as the priest. 

What shall we do? Carry them to Jesus. 



43 



ST. MATTHEW, lOTH CHAPTER, 16TH VERSE 

Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; 

be ye. therefore, as wise as serpents and harmless as doves. 

How shall a child of God be wise? First, pray at all tmies 

for the power of God to remain with us; second, watch oyr 
friends; the one who eats out of the same dish with us; 
such one can do us more harm than a very wicked smner ; 
we must be wise in this way that we might please God. 
When we have this kind of a cross we must be harmless as 
doves. We can go in Jesus' name and do just what He 
will have us do everywhere. Shall we go in some fine 
home? Not unless a home of that kind has a prodigal son 
or daughter. Let us do our best to get them back in my 
Father's fold. Ofttimes the lost sheep is found down in 
the dark valley with no light. What shall we do then? Go 
in the name of the living God, bring the lost sheep, as many 
as we can find, to the fold of God. We feel as though this 
sheep is our best friends ; not so often such one it our very 
worst friend. Then we are wounded so badly we ofttimes 
wonder if God is on our side or not. 

Remember, be as wise as a serpent and harmless as 
doves. Christ was treated worse than us. We are con- 
fessing Christ before men. We Christians must be willing 
to lose our life for Christ that Christ will own us in His 
Father's house. Let us not be weary in doing well for the 
cause of Christ. The night is dark; it will not be long; we 
shall get our pay at the end of our journey, not in the 
beginning. When God sends one of His children to work 
for his cause we should feel God has blessed us with great 
honor. 

God has power to make stones living souls who have 
never sinned against His command. When we are treated 
badly, try and bear for God's sake. He did not send us to 
pick flowers. He sent us in the midst of wolves. God 
will at all times help us be as wise as a serpents, harmless 
as doves, that we obey His command. 



44 



ST. MARK, 15TH CHAPTER, 26-27 VERSES 

And the superscription of his accusation was written 
over the King of the Jews. 

27 — And with Him they crucified two thieves, the one 
on His right hand, the other on His left. 

God is good; praise His Holy Name, for His goodness 
toward mankind; not you and me. When we have good 
things to give away we give them to such ones as can 
return the same to us again. Did we ever think how much 
we are displeasing our Heavenly Father? Who should we 
invite in our homes? The thief, not strange enough for 
that we have to lock our doors and keep them in the street; 
only God can take them with him. What must I do to 
please God? Try our best to help the poor pilgrims who 
have borne the burden in the heat of the day. Many of 
them are living today who have laid the cornerstone which 
we enjoy today. We are sitting under the grape vine en- 
joying the beauty of the leaves, looking, waiting for the 
grapes, that we may eat and enjoy them. Where is the 
pilgrim that planted the vine? Is he or she hungry we are 
entertaining? Just such ones can entertain us again. How 
shall we know the one we should entertain? Pray to God 
for wisdom such as pleases God to give us. We will un- 
derstand man as Christ did the two thieves that hung on 
the cross with Him. If we lack wisdom in a spiritual way 
go to God, not laan. When thieves come to us, if we have 
not lost the wisdom given His child thieves cannot stay 
with us; if so, the thief can feel of Christ in us so strong 
they will believe in Christ the Son of the living God. In 
his or her dark hour call for Christ to save them as the 
thieves did hanging on the cross of death. I am praying 
for God to help us every day; have faith to do what He 
would have us ^o for the salvation of sinful man. If we 
are at the rig.it hand or the left it is the hand of the living 
Christ. 



45 



ST. LUKE, 2D CHAPTER, 3D VERSE 

For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation. 

How can we see salvation? We must first have the 
blindness of sin taken away from our eyes. He can take 
sin away from us, only Jesus Christ the Son of the livmg 
God. When God takes away the blmdness of sm from us 
He gives us peace and light to shine in our path. As we 
go on our pilgrim journey for His cause do not let us 
depart from the Kght God gave us when we believed m 
His salvation. Sometimes we get weary on our journey. 
Do stay in the temple of righteousness. We may have to 
fast night and day that we may speak of God's goodness 
to them that are looking for redem.ption from sin and war. 
We cannot please God if we do not count the cost of our 
tower we built for God, whether we were able or not to 
finish. God help us count the cost of the tower, not give 
Mockers a chance to come in our building when we begin 
to build for the cause of Christ. Count the cost first. The 
way to count is that only have ten, the enemies have 
twenty come against us. If we have been obedient, Christ 
is pleased; your salt shall not have lost its savor; we have 
the last salvation Christ gave us when the blindness of sin 
was taken from our eyes. We are building every day if we 
can find men that will hear the Word of God. He can stay 
in our building; then we can rejoice at the salvation. 

Mine eyes have seen for the cause of the living God; 
mine eyes have seen drunkards turn from their sinful ways 
and become workers for the cause of Christ. 

Mine eyes have seen gamblers throw cards away, choose 
God's Bible for their salvation. Mine eyes have seen the 
heartless turn from their sinful way and choose Christ for 
their salvation. 

May God help my eyes to see salvation for the living 
God. 



46 



ST. JOHN, 16TH CHAPTER, 33D VERSE 

These things I have spoken unto, that in Me ye might 
have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be 
of good cheer; I have overcome the world. 

When Jesus left His disciples they were sorry. In trouble 
Jesus sent the comforter to them. Jesus is our friend in 
time of trouble, a friend no other can be. When we lose 
our friend we are often in trouble; when death comes in 
the home and takes our dear ones from us they cannot 
come to us if they have gone to sleep in Jesus, that 
blessed sleep only God can give. We want to go to them 
when we lose father. Our hearts pain within us when 
mother is gone; we have lost a friend such as this world 
cannot give to us. Mother cannot come to us if mother is 
sleeping that blessed sleep only God can give. We are 
sad; we want to go to mother. If Jesus leaves us He has 
promised to send us the comforter. His word has never 
failed. Jesus says the heaven and earth shall pass away. 
His word will stand. A child of God must have hard 
times some way, often in many different ways. We are 
often spoken evil of when we are doing our best in some 
way for God. We often think if mother were here this 
would not be. Mother would stand by her child in this 
world. God has said we should have tribulations in 
Christ. We have peace, such peace no one can take 
from us. 

I have often tried to show sinners the way to Christ. 
They have spoken so much unconcern in regards to their 
soul's salvation I have often wondered if God is with me. I 
pray God for His divine power. Then He reasons to me 
in my heart, be of good cheer, I am with you to the end 
of the world. I go on in Jesus' name doing my best to get 
sinners ready for death. I tell them with all my heart and 
strength death hath no dominion over me. The power 
Jesus gave me when He took my sins away has conquered 
death, hell and the grave. 

I thank God Jesus has overcome the world. He has 
given me and all that fully trust in Him power to overcome 
death, hell and the grave. Death has no dominion over 
me. I am only going to sleep in Jesus. 

47 



ACTS, 16TH CHAPTER, 9TH VERSE 

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. There stood 
a man of Macedonio and prayed him, saying Come over 
into Macedonia and help us. 

God is calling His children that that are saved, just the 
same as He did Paul, go in his vineyard, work for His cause. 
If we fail to obey God*s calling us to do His work, then He 
must do the work of God. We can help in many ways for 
the cause of Christ if man does not hear. We, who are 
living Christians, let us pray God for His divine power to 
go with the word of God in sinners' hearts until they be- 
come exceedingly troubled. 

When the Spirit of God comes to a sinner's heart he 
will become troubled. The sinner will inquire of you, 
what must he do to be saved, as the keeper in prison in- 
quired of Paul and Silas. A sinner cannot be saved when 
he is in the darkness of sin, not until the light of Christ 
shines in his heart.. When he beHeves in the light of 
Christ then he is saved by the light of the Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ. What must the saved man do to 
carry the light of Christ in every place we go? In this 
way man will come out of darkness of sin in the sunlight 
of God. 

If we have the light of righteousness we must take our 
light every place duty demands us; it may be in some 
lonely prison. Let us pray God for our ligh' 1 righteous- 
ness to shine in the keeper's heart that he will ; quire what 
must I do to be saved from sin. If we believe in the Lord 
Jesus Christ with all our hearts then we are baptized of 
repentance; then the Holy Ghost comes upon us. What 
must we do with the Holy Ghost? Try our best to keep it 
with us at all times; not let the swine steal from us what 
God has given us. If we do our best for God and his 
righteousness many will pray for us to come and help them 
as they did pray for Paul. 



48 



ROMANS, lOTH CHAPTER, 1-2 VERSES 

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel 
is, that they might be saved. 

Second. For I hear them record that they have a zeal 
of God, but not according to knowledge. 

Oh for a heart to praise my God, a heart from sin set 
free; broad is the road that leads to sin. 

Narrow is the road that leads to righteousness. 

If we Christians are traveling the broad road we will 
have many to go with us. Remember we have a zeal of 
our own not according to knowledge. Will this zeal please 
God at His coming? Not so. We should not do any- 
thing we would not have our Heavenly Father come and 
find us doing. A great many so-called Christians are going 
about to establish their own righteousness. We must re- 
member Christ is the end of the law. We must have a zeal 
of God, not of our own. If we see His face in peace 
what must we do if we have a zeal of God? First, let 
nothing but the truth come out of our mouths; second, 
treat our brothers as we would have them treat us; third, 
pay our debts; fourth, pray daily for God's grace to keep 
our hearts, that His zeal might remain in us. We cannot 
keep ourselves; we must be kept by the power of God; 
fifth, the zeal of God has no sweetness if we do not give 
it to the unsaved. We must begin in our homes first with 
our husbands. Let them know we will stand for nothing* 
but God's righteousness; God will bring us out in His own 
way and time; second, train our children in a Christian 
way, keep them out of the streets at night. In this way we 
are giving the sweetness of our zeal to all we meet with. 
Brethren, it is my heart's desire and prayer to God for u$ 
Christians to have knowledge of God and not a zeal of our 
own, according to His divine grace. 



49 



I. CORINTfflANS, 14TH CHAPTER, 1-2 VERSES 

Follow after charity and desire spiritual gifts, but rather 
that ye may prophesy. 

Second. For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue 
speaketh not unto men but unto God; for no man under- 
standeth Him, how — but in the Spirit he speaketh mysteries. 

I hear one speaking. What voice is this? It is the voice 
of a child of the living God. What tongue God gave me 
when He pardoned me of my sins? What songs are you 
singing? I have been Redeemed, Washed in Jesus' Blood. 
Who can understand? Only them who have been washed 
in Jesus* blood, the Son of the living God. To any other 
it is a mystery. 

Who are you following? The spiritual gifts God gave 
me — do they lead you to leave the man's tongue follow 
after charity? How shall we do this? Give money. Not 
enough have knowledge and understand all mysteries. 
Faith can remove mountains. I know what I can do. I 
have given to the poor, I have faith; it is one of God's 
commands. I am willing to give my body. No — what 
now God does not want our riches, knowledge, under- 
standing. 

We must give God all our hearts. 

We must give God all our hearts filled with charity, one 
toward another. How can I do this in a way such as pleases 
God? One way, if our friend or brother have riches let 
us rejoice in our hearts with our friend, not envy him in 
our hearts. Only God knows what is in our hearts. Your 
brother or sister can make something. You cannot have 
charity and feel glad in your heart. Cheer them, and 
do not say to them you are glad and have envy in the 
heart. We are lying to them; God can see in our hearts; 
let us try and help one another. 

Speak with tongue of the spirit and follow after spirit- 
ual gifts such as pleases God in every way. 

God help us Christians to speak many mysteries in the 
unsaved man's ear. They will follow after our spiritual 
gifts such as only God can give them. 



50 



IL CORINTHIANS, 5TH CHAPTER, 1ST VERSE 

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle 
were dissolved we have building of God, a house not made 
with hands, eternal in the heavens* 

How sweet it is for a child of God to know we have a 
building not made with hands. Who made your building? 
God, the righteous Judge. 

How did we get a right to this building? Only by faith 
and humble prayer. What are we doing with our building? 
Are we keeping our building in repair? How shall we 
keep it in repair? Look it over daily — not at night — day 
and night, every hour. Ofttimes the tempter comes in 
betv/een the hours. What shall we do then? Watch as 
well as pray at all times for God to inspire us. If there are 
any holes, any decay in our building; if we let holes re- 
main in our building men will get in and eat away our 
spiritual strength from us. If we have a decay in our 
building the rain and storm will get in our building and rot 
it away. When it falls we cannot get it back again in the 
way God is pleased with us. 

I am trying to watch my building the best I know how — ■ 
the only way, carry your building with you every place 
you go. Speak of your building, invite some unsaved soul 
in your building, tell them how sweet it is to have a build- 
ing not made with hands. 

In heaven this house must pass away. Some day — v/e 
do not know how soon it will be — I do know when this 
earthly house of this tabernacle shall pass away. I have 
a building of God not made with hands eternal in the 
heavens. 

I am writing you about my building this day, June 7th, 
1916, in obedience to God's command, hoping the reader 
may be greatly benefited, as it has pleased God for me to 
publish the third book. When this earthly house of my 
tabernacle is dissolved the reader may be strengthened. May 
God bless you all. 



51 



GALATIANS, 6TH CHAPTER, 7-8 VERSES 

Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a 
man soweth that shall he also reap. 

Eighth. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh 
reap corruption; but he that soweth of the Spirit shall of 
the Spirit reap life everlasting. 

We Christians should be careful how we entertain one 
another. Ofttimes the Holy Spirit is talking with us; we 
drive it away unaware. How shall we know the Holy 
Spirit? We must keep the Spirit in our hearts, carry it 
with us every place we go. Wlien we meet the Spirit of 
God it will be like a live wire; the current will be so 
strong it will burn everything we find in darkness of sin. 
How can a Christian deceive his or herself? One way is 
sinning God in the street, not at home. Charity must begin 
in our homes; second, in the neighborhood in which v^e 
live; third, is my hardest task in the church which I be- 
long to? How is this? I find in the seat in which I sit 
many different spirits. Are they Christian ? I have thought 
so for years. Were you deceived? Yes, many times. 
What did you do with it after a long time? I carried such 
a one to God. Are they only in the church? No, I find 
them in my path daily. Why did you not carry such a one 
to God in the beginning? I was spiritually weak myself. 
I began to pray God for His divine power to lead me in the 
way He would have mt go. The spirits are leading me. 

Be not deceived. God is marking what shall I do. If I 
waste God's precious time with them that are working we 
shall reap corruption trying to fool God and man. What 
shall I do to inherit eternal life? Keep the Spirit of 
Christ in us, not let the devil and his plans set for us, 
catch us in his trap. We will be nothing more than flies, 
mice, rats ; such things are caught in traps. 

My prayer to God is that we Christians will gain strength 
enough to stand before the enemy. Sow to the Spirit; 
help to reap everlasting life* 



5« 



EPHESIANS, 3D CHAPTER, 13-14 VERSES 

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my translations 
for you, which is your glory. 

Fourteenth. For this cause I bow my knees unto the 
Father, our Lord Jesus Christ. 

We have often felt that God has forgotten us. Trouble 
comes to us. What shall I do? Let us take our troubles 
to God and leave them in our Heavenly Father's hands and 
not take them out. We often take our troubles back in 
many ways. One way, if we have given our troubles to 
God we must not worry. We are taking them back if we 
tell a friend our troubles when we have given them to God. 
In this way we are taking them from God. How shall wc 
give our troubles to God? Fall on our knees, pray the best 
we know how for God to help us to faint not in well-doing. 
God has wonderful blessings. 

When you had trouble what did you do with your trou- 
bles? Did you take them to the devil? If so, only the 
devil's pay we must expect. We have fainted. If so, God 
forbid, God help us to bow on our knees to our Father, the 
Lord Jesus Christ. He will give us glory for every trial wc 
endure for His cause. If God stayed with us always we 
would not know how sweet it is to take our tribulations to 
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. You Christians do 
not endure hardness as a good soldier; we cannot get our 
crown; God has waited for us. How shall we endure 
when our brother treats us so badly and take our peace 
from us? We cannot sleep at night; that is one of our trib- 
ulations. Take it to Jesus and leave it with Him. 

God will give us glory in His time if we have given our 
tribulations to Jesus. We are displeasing God when wc 
tell it to a friend. We must bow our knees unto the 
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and pray for Him to give 
us grace to stand our tribulations as one of His dear chil- 
dren, that we may get the glory God has waiting for us. 
It will bring such joy no one can give us only the Father of 
our Lord Jesus Christ. 



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PHILIPPIANS, 8TH CHAPTER, 13-14 VERSES 

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but 
this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind 
and reaching forth unto those which are before. 

Fourteenth. I press toward the mark for the prize of 
the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 

When I was a girl the age of ten years I felt the need 
of a loving Saviour's care. I prayed to God in my childish 
way* Jesus, moved with compassion, heard my prayer and 
called me out of the darkness of sin into the light of right- 
eousness. I am trying every day to leave sin behind me 
and forget the sinful things of this life. I am reaching forth 
unto righteousness such as only God can give. If we are 
carrying sin in our heart we are looking back after the 
things behind us. We cannot get the prize God has waiting 
for us. How shall we get the prize? We must deny our- 
selves, take up the cross daily and contend for our prize. 
How shall we contend for the prize when we are tempted 
to speak evil of our brethren? First, inquire of God, will 
He give us a prize for warning our brethren in every way; 
second, when our brethren are walking in darkness of sin 
do we walk with him in sin? 

We cannot get the prize God has waiting for us in this 
way. We must carry the light of Christ with us daily, let 
it shine in our brethren's dark path if we get the prize God 
has for us. Watch our enemies come to us as sheep in- 
ward raving wolves — remember we are contending for the 
prize God has waiting for us, reaching forth for the mark of 
the higher calling which is Jesus Christ. We must be filled 
with the spirit of righteousness if we get the glory of God. 
How can we keep filled with righteousness such as God 
gave His children? How can we keep filled every day 
and night and not look back, contending for the faith God 
gave us? 

When we begin looking for the mark of the high calling 
of God in Christ Jesus. 



54 



COLOSSIANS, 1ST CHAPTER, 13TH VERSE 

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and 
hath translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son? 
I am thankful God so loved this world that He gave His 

dear Son to this wicked world that we might have a right 
in the Kingdom of His dear Son. Have we ever thought 
how good God is to us to give us the best and all He had 
that we might have a right no man can take from us? 
God had power to choose one of His disciples that we 
might be translated in to the Kingdom of His dear Son. 
God loved us so He gave the best and all He had that we 
might be saved from the darkness of sinful things in this 
life. What are we doing for God? Are we trying to trans- 
late some one from sin into the light of righteousness? Let 
us remember God gave us the best He had. Are we doing 
anything if we make one step for His salvation? God will 
mark, too, if we do our best. How can we do our best to 
translate some unsaved soul into the Kingdom of His dear 
Son? 

First, look in our own house and see if any old or new 
sin we can find. Get it out in the name of God, then pray. 
God give us just the words to say that will touch some un- 
saved heart for Him. If you haven't time, take time. Go 
in Jesus' name. Remember, God gave the best He had 
that we might be translated into the Kingdom of His deaf 
Son when the night of darkness comes on us. God has 
promised to deliver us when trouble comes to us. God has 
promised to deliver us not from the kind of trouble we can 
get out of ourselves. 

When we have done all we can do God will deliver His 
children in due time. 

Oh, how sweet it is for us to know we have been deliv- 
ered from darkness. Some time, sooner or later, we shall 
be translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son Jesus 
Christ the righteous. 



55 



FIRST THESSALONIANS, 2D CHAPTER, 18TH VERSE 

Wherefore we would have come unto you, evc^ I, Paul, 
once and again, but Satan hindered us. 

We did run well for a season. What hindered us when 
we lost the sight of the bright and morning star? Satan 
hindered us; God help us keep our eyes on the bright star 
God gave us when he took us out of the darkness of sin, 
and the morning star roused in our soul. We would have 
gained many stars if Satan had not hindered us. How did 
Satan hinder us in many ways? 

God wanted us to go in His vineyard and work for the 
salvation of sinful man. Satan did hinder us. The harvest 
is ripe, the laborers are few. Who will go and work this 
day before the night of darkness comes on us. If we con- 
tinue to let Satan hinder us how shall we get our crown 
God has waiting for us. Can we afford to lose our crowns 
now? We cannot. How shall we get our crowns? By 
having more faith, praying to God for His Spirit to lead 
us in such a way as pleases Him daily. 

When God sends His Spirit to us do not let Satan hinder 
us from the duty the Spirit demands of us. If we do wc 
will miss God*s blessings. When we miss a blessing again 
Satan has hindered us again. 

Shall we keep Satan from hindering us? Bear our 
crosses, give them to Jesus. He will help us as no other 
friend will only Jesus. We must suffer tribulations. 

If we do not, God cannot use us as workmen in His 
vineyard. God help us not to live a filthy life. God's eyes 
are on us at all times and can see just when Satan has 
hindered us. If we are not living the life of a Christian 
Satan has hindered us. 

God help us watch and pray at all times that Satan will 
not hinder us from getting the blessing God has waiting 
for us. 



56 



SECOND THESSALONIANS, 1ST CHAPTER, 3D VERSE 

We are bound to thank God always for your brethren, as 
it is meet because that your father groweth exceedingly and 
the charity of every one of you all toward each other 
aboundeth. 

I am thankful that God has some strong children growing 
high looking for heaven. 

God will pay us just what is right in due time. It is 
meet to work for God; it makes us strong. We look heaven- 
ward at all times. If we go on in God's name we will grow 
exceedingly as our mothers and fathers did. 

God wonderfully blesses us when He accepts us as His 
dear children. How thankful we should be to our Heavenly 
Father for His blessing He is giving us daily. How? In 
many different ways. First, think when we came in this 
sinful world we had nothing, did not know any one. Selus ! 
God gave food and strength to our mothers for us. Is that 
all God gave us? Not the beginning. He gave our mothers 
a kind heart that they kept us out of the cold, chilly winds 
to feed ourselves. Did we ever think how much we should 
thank our Heavenly Father for our kind mothers? 

Some of our mothers have passed away and gone. We 
did not think to thank God nor mother that we have grown 
to the size of men and women. The best and sweetest God 
gave us His dear Son to die that you and I shall have a 
right to the tree of life. Let us grow large and strong in the 
cause of Christ, have charity one for another, not enmity. 
In this way we will eat such meat that pleases our Heavenly 
Father. When God comes for us may God find us grown 
exceedingly for the salvation of man as our fathers groweth 
cxceedinly. 



57 



FIRST TIMOTHY, 3D CHAPTER, 12-13 VERSES 

Let the deacons be the deacons of one wife, ruHng his 
children and their own houses well. 

Thirteenth. For they that have used the office of a dea- 
con will purchase to themselves a good degree, and great 
boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 

How can we be bold for the cause of Christ? Do what 
duty demands a Christian at all times, not one day, every 
day. How shall we begin in our own house? First, if we 
keep our house clean we can have such faith as will make 
us bold and help our weak brother. How can we find the 
mote in our brother's eye carrying a beam in our own eye? 
God help us to find out how many ways we can carry beams 
in our own eyes. We may not speak ill of our brother. 

Second, pay our brother the bill due him when we can. 
God will help us if we try. 

Third, when our brother is not doing so well pray for 
him and give him a kind word; make his heart feel glad, 
not wound him. If we do our best in this way God is 
pleased at us; we can purchase a good degree for the 
cause of Christ. If a man is a Christian he cannot ill treat 
his wife and please God. 

Ofttimes such ones are not the husband of one wife. 
God help the wife to be the wife of one husband. 

A Christian and a lady such as pleases God. What arc 
we doing with our children? Are we doing our best to 
bring them up in a Christian way such as pleases God? 
How shall we do this? Train them in the way we will have 
them go at an early age. First, do our best to get Christ in 
the child's heart at an early age. We cannot begin too soon 
to teach the child how to work. Not much time for the 
street. When they go out try and know where the child is 
going and what company they are keeping. 

Keep them out of the streets at night. If we do our best 
we will please God, will be the keepers of our households. 

May God help us to purchase a good degree and great 
boldness for the cause of Christ. 

58 



SECOND TIMOTHY, 2D CHAPTER, 4TH VERSE 

No man that worketh entangleth himself with the affairs 
of A.S hfe that he may please who hath chosen hSm to t " 



soldier 



I am trying my best to be a soldier for the cause of 
Christ in my first attempt. 

Examine my garment that it may be clean and spotless 
from sm that God will be pleased with me and give me his 
meekness that I may not be empty handed when the enemy 
comes against me. ^ 

We cannot use our meekness God gave us when He chose 
us as a soldier for His cause. The enemy will take our 
meekness from us We are nothing more than dry leaves, 
only good to be burned in fire. 

May God help us who are soldiers for His cause to be 
brave at all times and stay on the battlefield ready for war 
and rumors of war will come against the cause of Christ. 

Sometimes a soldier must fight when thirsty. Go on, 
trust God. Though hungry, trust, trust God; tired, trust 
God; sleepy, trust God. When we feel like we must fall 
and cannot go any longer, call on the living God and re- 
member God will not let His children lose a battle — no, not 
one. When we are weary and tired and have been on a 
long journey for the cause of Christ the bugle may sound 
for us. Go on the battlefield again; remember we arc 
working for a living God, who has never lost a battle. 

We are not one of us His good soldier when we fail to 
obey God. We will lose the stars God has to place in our 
crown. If God has chose us as soldiers for Him, let us do 
our best and please God, not man. 

If we please God we will leave some good work in this 
world, will save many in the fold of God. When we have 
gone from life to life eternal nothing but a good soldier, one 
who has endured hardness on the battlefield for the cause of 
Christ, can be chosen as a soldier for the cause of the living 
God. 



59 



TITUS, 3D CHAPTER, 9TH VERSE 

But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and conten- 
tions and striving about the law, for they arc unprofitable 
and vain. 

Watch the friend that comes to us in sheep's clothing. 
Inward they are cunning wolves. We are often asked fool- 
ish questions. 

Who 'do the sheep represent? The children of Christ 
doing all the good they can do, carrying the little lambs 
out of the sun in some shady place, keeping them from 
getting overcome with hot sun. The lambs are not so strong 
as the sheep. If we are true children of God we must do 
our best to help our little ones. 

Who do the wolves represent? Children of the devil. 
What can we do to get them out of the way? It is best for 
us the wolves are only seeking who they can devour in 
many different ways — one way, asking us foolish questions. 
If we do not watch the answer we make we lose the spirit 
God gave us. We go back with the wolves and the children 
of the devil. Where can the wolves and the children of the 
devil lead us Christians? Many different places not good 
for a child of God. 

Sometimes in the courthouse, in the lawyer's office, are 
we in the place a Christian should be in and know we have 
gone astray from the law of God with wolves' children of 
the devil? How did I get in this place? I was doing my 
best. I thought, I do not bother any one, I mind my busi- 
ness. Just the one the children of the devil are looking for 
and running wolves devouring us, eating all the good we 
can do. 

What shall we do? Watch and pray at all times. 



60 



PHILEMAN, 1ST CHAPTER, 22D VERSE 

But with all, prepare me also a lodging, for I trust that 
through your prayers I shall be given unto you. 

It^ has been my heart's desire and prayer to God that 
God's Holy Spirit will find a lodging place in some unsaved 
man or wamon's heart before the night of darkness comes 
up. Then what shall we do when we pray to God for the 
unsaved man? 

Our desire is so great we cannot sleep at night. Trust 
God, wait, watch and believe. God will come and answer 
our prayers right away. Not very often did we think to 
thank God. For prepare the heart of the unsaved man and 
let the grace of God lodge in his heart. We must not forget 
to thank God for His grace that remains in our hearts, that 
we can pray always. No man can stop us from praying. 

Just think how good God is to us. His grace has been 
given unto this sinful world. Through his death we have 
a right to the tree of life. We can cat this food at all 
times in the night when others are asleep. I have often 
eaten of this heavenly food. I am doing all in my power 
to find the unsaved one and prepare his heart that the 
grace of God will have a lodging place for the Son of God. 

Keep a lodging place in our hearts for the grace of the 
living God. We must pray for the unsaved that the grace 
of God will be given unto others. 



6i 



HEBREWS, 2D CHAPTER, 1ST VERSE 

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the 
things which we have heard lest at any time we should let 
them slip. 

Have we forgotten how much we were in need of our 
dear Saviour when we were in the darkness of sin — ^how 
we promised our dear Saviour, if He would take us out of 
the darkness of sin we would work in the sunlight of right- 
eousness, would let the light shine in some dark valley. 
The light of righteousness will save one. 

God help us to not let our promises slip from us. How 
can we keep them? No way can we keep ourselves. We 
must heed the Spirit. When God sends His Holy Spirit to 
us, if we do not heed the Spirit when God sends it to us we 
are letting it slip from us, if we do not earnestly heed the 
Spirit. How does it come to us? In many different ways. 
Sometimes God calls us, telling us just what He would have 
us do. That call is not like the call of man's voice. It has 
a sweet sound in our ear, ringing from God, such as no man 
can call. What did you hear? Go and tell one of my 
litde ones; get near me. Did you go or let it slip from 
you? Have you heard the voice of God calling. Go preach 
My Gospel that man might be saved? Did you let that call 
slip from you? Did you ever hear God talking with you 
when you were walking in the street, telling what He would 
have you do? What did you say? Yes, Lord, I will go. 
Did you go, or did you let it slip from you? 

How long has it been since God bid you go in His vine- 
yard, work for His cause; some ten years, some twenty 
years, some thirty years I heard one say, God saved me 
when I was a child ten years of age. I was too young. 
How old are you now? Sixty years? Did you hear God 
call you more than once? Yes, for years that sweet call is 
God calling you. 

Now I know that call is from God and I have let it slip 
from me. 

God help every one of us to give heed to the callings 
from God, not let them slip from us. 

62 



JAMES, 1ST CHAPTER, 1-2-3 VERSES 

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to 
the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad. 

Second Verse. My brethren, count it all joy when we 
fall into divers temptations. 

Third Verse. Knowing this that the trying of your faith 
worketh patience. 

When temptations come to us, what must we dg^ with 
them? First, think who we are. If we are a child of God 
we must count them a blessing. How it drives us to prayer. 
When we pray we get strong; if we have nothing to make 
us pray we would only say prayers, and praying is not the 
same. Children pray as we teach them. The temptations 
that come in our way teach us how praying is much needed 
with us at all times if they come to us in many different 
ways. 

Our hearts get troubled. What then? We begin praying 
for God to move this trouble from us in some way. Our 
faith is tried when God does not come to us right away. 
What shall we do now? Have patience, wait on the living 
God. In His time He will come to us as no other friend 
can come. 

Did we thank God for the temptations that come to us? 
Not very often. We should thank our Heavenly Father for 
the dark valley He brings us through. All we get is from 
the hand of God; let us give praise to His Holy Name for 
the pay God brings to us in disguised ways, knowing that 
trying of your faith worketh patience. Do, for God's sake, 
let patience have her perfect work. It is hard for us to do 
this. We can only get God's blessings by working for them 
in such way that pleases Him. Ofttimes we want God's 
blessing; knowing blessing, God's blessing is waiting for us. 

What must we do now? Ask our husband for God's 
wisdom? No, God forbid. Ask a friend? Not so. What 
shall we do? We cannot do anything to please God if we 
have not faith. God help us to have faith to ask God for 
such wisdom that we are in need of when we fall into temp- 
tation. God help us to court it all joyously. God can give 
His saints. 

63 



FIRST PETER, 1ST CHAPTER, 18-19 VERSES 

For as much as we know that ye were not redeemed with 
corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain con- 
versation received by tradition from your fathers. 

Nineteenth Verse. But with the Precious Blood of Christ 
as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot. 

What are we giving God for His kindness to us? Have 
we ever thought how good God is? He gave His only son 
for our redemption, the best Heaven had. What are we 
doing for God's kindness to_us? Say I have worked hard 
in my time for the cause of Christ; then is it not right that 
we get our pay at the end of the journey, not at the begin- 
ning, not half way, not near the end? We must go all the 
way, for did you ever think when we have done our best 
we are nothing more than filthy rags to God's goodness. 
We work hard sometimes; we feel we should get the best 
God has. 

When we feel that way we have done nothing. The time 
God comes to us we feel we are the smallest child God has. 
If we are God*s child at all we judge a man from his outer 
appearance; that is our best; it is nothing. God knows just 
what is in our hearts. 

We do not know our own hearts; we stumble and fall 
so often when we think we have done our best. 

What shall we do that God will be pleased with us? See 
to it our garments have not a blemish on them; give God 
our hearts, not man. God is the only one we can please if 
we are doing our best. 

Clothing is good; we love to wear them. Food is better; 
we cannot live if we have not food. Silver is good, gold is 
better; it brings a better price. 

What shall I give — ^blood? No; give God our hearts, do 
our best and keep the heart clean, that God will send His 
Holy Spirit to us and tell us just what He would have us do 
for the redemption of sinful man. God help us be pure 
and not turn aside for silver nor gold; it was the blood of 
Christ that saved us. God help us to be silver and pure 
gold for the salvation of man. 

64 



SECOND PETER, 2D CHAPTER, 21ST VERSE 

For it had been better for them not to have known the 
way of righteousness than after they have known it to turn 
from the Holy G>mmandment deHvered unto them. 

God is good to all sinful man. Have you ever tasted the 
goodness of God? How did we taste the goodness? When 
I felt the need of a living Saviour and I gave all I had to 
Jesus — that was only a sinful heart — I trusted in Jesus*^ 
word that He would give me a new heart. He filled my 
heart with righteousness and gave me a heart overflowing. 
I can taste the goodness of God in my mouth; it is sweet 
as honey to me ; I am trying to give the sweetness to others. 
God help us all to give a word of righteousness to the un- 
saved man, that he will apply his heart unto wisdom and 
understanding and receive the commandment such as God 
delivered unto them. God is good; He is holy; He is not 
willing for any of us to perish away and die. His promise 
to us, if we keep His Commandments delivered unto us, 
will save us. When the elements melt with ferment of 
heat the works that are therein, if we are living a Godly and 
holy life, such as pleases God, according to His promise, 
we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth nothing^ 
but the righteous can obtain. What will you do when you 
have turned from God's holy commandment delivered unto 
them ? It is better if the man had never known the way of 
God's righteousness. He that knows the law of God and 
does not do his best will be beaten with many stripes. 

God help us pray daily for the love of Christ to remain in 
our hearts that we will never be overcome. Watch and 
pray. 

When we go to our beds at night give our watch to our 
Heavenly Father. In this way we are keeping our com- 
mandment God delivered unto us when He took away the 
old heart of sin. 



65 



JOHN, 3D CHAPTER, 2D VERSE 

Behold now are we the Sons of God and it doeth not yet 
appear what we shall be, but we know that when He $hall 
appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 

We cannot see God as He is if we have not repented of 
our sins and believe on the Son of the living God with all 
our hearts. When God puts His love in our hearts tell it to 
others. God will help us to find some unsaved soul who 
wanted to become the son of the living God. 

We children must do something for the cause of God in 
many different ways. If we cannot go out in the highways 
we can find work for God in our homes. Ofttimes.we get 
our first star in our crowns by letting our light shine in the 
home. May God help us to be more watchful in this way. 
First let in our husbands. Now we are the daughters of 
God. In this way our husbands may become the sons of 
God. It doth not yet appear what good we did for Christ. 
It will appear when we see Him what we have done for 
God. 

Behold, let us pray God for His divine power from on 
high. Purify our hearts that sin will not remain in. If we 
commit sin, transgress the law of God, we cannot be the 
son and daughter of God. If we are not like Him, marvel 
not if you are spoken evil of. 

When you are trying to save some one into the fold of 
God remember how the wicked ones did Christ, best friend 
they ever knew. We have passed from death into life. Wc 
have to look for unsaved ones — ^we must tell them. 

Behold I know Christ has reigned in my soul ; come and 
see Him for yourself, and you shall be like Him. When 
God calls for the deed hath been done. You and I who 
have kept the faith bear the burden for the cause of 
Christ, are the sons and daughters of the living God. We 
are like Him. 

May God help us to see God as He is at the latter day. 

66 



THIRD EPISTLE OF JOHN, IITH VERSE 

Behold, follow not that which is evil but that which is 
good; he that doeth good is of God, but he that doeth evil 
hath not seen God. 

How can we follow good and not evil? 

First, stop and let God in our hearts; second, in our 
homes; third, in our business; fourth, take God with us 
ever3^here we go. How shall we take God with us? If 
we are true Christians God is in our hearts. 

Seek daily to keep God with us. We will starve and die 
if we do not keep God in our hearts. When we look upon 
the evil things of this life pray God to keep our hands from 
handling evil. God will help us to not take them in our 
mouth if a child of God. If we get evil in our homes it is 
hard to get evil out. We must try and keep evil out in the 
beginning. We must stay upon our watch. My first watch 
is myself; second, watch, my husband; third watch, my 
children; fourth watch, my friend's love; my fifth watch, 
what evil comes in my front door and my back gate. If 
evil comes in this many ways and we entertain it we are 
getting blind; we will not have enough righteousness in us 
to see God as He is. 

Behold, I pray God for us. Seek and do that which is 
good in such a way we will carry the light of God in us 
every place we go in the street we live in. Every place 
duty demands us all we meet with can see God in us. No 
one can see God in us if we are carrying evil with us. 

We must house-clean often, and look in our closets, 
under the carpets, in our trunks, in our tin cans— some 
name them growlers. See what the growlers contain. If 
good be in them or evil. If we Christians entertain evil we 
had just as well stop praying for all the good we are doing 
for the cause of Christ. 

Behold, I am doing my best that I may not follow after 
that which is evil. 

When God comes for me I will be doing good, not evil. 
Every effort will be glorifying the son of the living God. 

67 



JUDE, 1ST CHAPTER, 24-25 VERSES 

Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling an^d 
to present you faultless before the presence of His glory 
with exceeding joy. 

Twenty-fifth Verse. To the only wise God, our Saviour, 
be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and 
ever. Amen. 

Oh, for a heart to give praises unto my God, a heart 
from sin set free, a heart that will speak of His blood so 
freely shed for thee. If God holds dominion over our 
hearts we must have power with God. Yes, what are w^ 
doing with our power given us when He saved us from the 
sinful things of this life? Are we Christians executing 
judgment for the salvation of sinful man? In what way are 
we doing this? It is many different ways one may keep 
looking. 

For Cain will slay us as he did in days of old. 

We have Cain in our homes; not only in our homes, in 
the church, sitting in the seat with us. Often we have Cain 

and leading us. What shall we do? Take them 

to God in secret prayer God's power will reveal many 
mysteries to us if we faint not. How shall we keep from 
fainting on this long journey when we have the powers of 
hell coming from our brother that sat in sweet council with 
us? This is the time we must look unto God, Who is able 
to keep us from falling in sin. If not, we have gone back, 
not kept the faith God has delivered to His Saints. We 
must keep our garments spotless from sin and filth, lest 
when the tempter comes to us in so many different ways, 
how shall we please God, not man? Tell man we arc 
looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal 
life. 

God is able to keep us from falling. If we will be kept 
by His divine power we will have dominion over all things 
coming against us now and for ever. Amen. 



68 



JUDGE, 1ST CHAPTER, 5TH VERSE 

I will therefore put you in remembrance though ye once 
knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the 
Land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 

How beautiful it is to stand in the shades of righteousness 
God gave us.. No man has power to take away from us the 
salvation God gave us. We have power with Christ to give 
salvation to man. How sweet it is to call man out of 
darkness into the sunlight of the living God. 

Can we do anything to please God better, when we leave 
the ninety and nine sheep that went not astray and go in 
God's name to find the lost sheep? We may have to go over 
the high mountain, down in some lonely valley. We must 
have Jesus with us. Jesus will stay with us in a time like 
this, keeping the salt of salvation in our mouth that we can 
call the lost sheep. 

Oh, that sweet call only God can give us. If we find the 
sheep what shall we do with the sheep? Bring him or her 
to Jesus. Tell Jesus I have done my best in j'^our name. 
V/e may be weak from that long journey. Go to Jesus for 
a nevv^ supply of grace that we may keep on working for 
Him. Jesus will never forsake nor leave one alone who has 
a desire to follow after righteousness. 

If we continue in prayer God will give us grace seasoned 
with the salt of righteousness, and we will reach the sinner's 
heart. If we get offended in any way God helps our speech 
and fills us with grace that will lead some unsaved soul to 
the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of this world. 

I am trying my best to lead unsaved man to the salt and 
salvation of righteousness. 



69 



REVELATIONS, 14TH CHAPTER, 13TH VERSE 

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me. Write 
blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; 
yea, saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labors; 
and their works do follow them. 

We Christians must pray daily for God to teach us just 
what we should do for His cause. When we get the answer, 
God forbid that we throw it away. Often this has been done 
by many of His children. If we are God's chosen children 
we must obey God's voice when He says go in the vineyard 
and work. If we obey God's command, sometimes we must 
go down in some lonely valley. Only a child of the living 
God can go in such a place and carry the light of Christ 
with us. 

Should we find the unsaved ones that will let the light 
of Christ shine in his or her soul so bright, they will tell 
others where they saw the light of Christ. 

In this way we are blessed in many ways by the hand 
of God. 

We are dead in the Lord; we will carry such sweet spirit 
to the Lord He will bid us rest from our work. Our work 
will follow us when we are dead and gone, let them be good 
or bad. God helps every one of us do the will of God in 
such a way God will be pleased with us at His coming. 

If God bids us write for Him, write in God's name; if He 
bids us look for the salvation of sinners, look in God's 
name ; if He bids us work for His cause, go in God's name. 

We must remember this voice comes to us from heaven, 
not from man. If we obey God, man is displeased at us. 
The voice calls us from heaven, not man; we get weary at 
times. Sleep and rest is for us at the end of our journey — 
that blessed, sweet rest only God gives to His children who 
labor and work for the cause of Christ. 

When the voice said unto us, Write, if we obey we will 
get rest from our labor such as is soothing the dead that 
sleep in Christ Jesus. Oh, that blessed rest. Every one 
we lead to Jesus is our work — ^it will follow us. 



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Father, I stretch my hands to Thee, 

No other help I know: 
If Thou withdraw Thyself from me, 

Oh whither shall I go. 

SARAH TOWNSBND 



Let us pray. 



THE LORD'S PRAYER 



Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. 
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in 
heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us of 
our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us. 
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, 
for Thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, for 
ever. Amen. 




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